• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Documentary watcher here. Isn’t the “photosphere” of the star defined by the visible surface? It is my understanding you could be “hundreds of millions of kilometers inside” the corona and not know it, but inside the photosphere?

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        3 months ago

        Meaning a little less than half of that radius is way way way less than 20 million times less dense. That’s wild.

        I think about that when looking at luminous gas clouds that are millions of lys across. We can only “see” it because all the photons coming from that region of space is concentrated in a tiny visible area.